The Harpenden Methodist Church
THE HARPENDEN METHODIST CHURCH, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1346865
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jan-1985
- List Entry Name:
- The Harpenden Methodist Church
- Statutory Address:
- THE HARPENDEN METHODIST CHURCH, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1346865
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jan-1985
- List Entry Name:
- The Harpenden Methodist Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE HARPENDEN METHODIST CHURCH, HIGH STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- THE HARPENDEN METHODIST CHURCH, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- St. Albans (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Harpenden Town
- National Grid Reference:
- TL1345414297
Details
TL 1314 SW
16/50
HARPENDEN
HIGH STREET
(east side)
The Harpenden Methodist Church
II
Church, church hall and offices. 1929 by A Brace. Long symmetrical frontage in
neo-Tudor style. Stone facade; wings at each end in red brick with stone dressings.
machine tile roof. 2 storeys. Gable-ended church is recessed in centre. Stepped
buttresses either side. 4-light window with curvilinear tracery. Projecting ground
floor has gabled porch with moulded arch. Small 2-light mullioned casements each
side. Gable -ended wings either side have their front ground floors stepped forward
slightly. Their front and side elevations have thin 2-light casements with slightly
recessed mullions and transoms. The wings at each end have similar casements of
2-3 lights on the ground floor and single hipped eaves dormers with 4-light casements.
They terminate in arch-headed openings with continuous stone mouldings. The interior
of the church has a broad nave of G bays. Pointed wooden barrel vault. Pointed
chamfered arches to the side elevations of the nave bays, changing to a 2-arch open
arcade at the transepts. Semi-octagonal piers to the chancel arch. 3-arch arcade
to the chancel walls and 3-light E window. The narrow aisles have cross arches
at each bay and open into the nave through paired arches in each bay. (Pevsner
(1977)).
Listing NGR: TL1345414297
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 164036
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire, (1977)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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